DaveH;294824 wrote:
I guess I haven't really noticed, whats wrong with the old stadium? Is the astroturf wearing out?

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Idk it doesnt have enough fancy seats I guess.

Taxpayers get gang-bagned by big-money sports teams. The stuff about all of the tax revenue and jobs and all that is pretty bogus. It's pretty similar to obama-job-math.

The case going on in Seattle is pretty funny. The city sued the team for trying to leave, so then the same damn lawyers that sold the city on the deal because of how great all the extra revenue was going to be are now arguing that it didn't actually add anything to the city so there's no harm in letting them go. I love it.

Basically sports teams are extortionists, and have no loyalty to any particular city. It's whoever is willing to pay up, and right after some fancy new stadium is the built the team asks for more money or threatens to leave. And cities keep enabling these abusive spouses over and over again.

Minneapolis ought to just buy the Vikings NFL franchise if it's that important to the city, and if nobody has any qualms about taxing the shit out of everyone for stuff that a few people want.

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Trafik Jamz;294793 wrote:
With all the socialist democrats in Minnesota I'm surprised that this is even still being debated. Gov't owned stadium...sounds like something they would be all over.

This

integra_gsr98;294720 wrote:
Plus if the vikings leave I'll never watch football again.

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Trafik Jamz;294793 wrote:
With all the socialist democrats in Minnesota I'm surprised that this is even still being debated. Gov't owned stadium...sounds like something they would be all over.

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SmitEvo;294784 wrote:
...or the team leaves and five years down the road we build a new stadium that costs twice as much as renovating the dome because we realize how much we need/want/support a football team. Kind of like the north stars....I guess the Los Angeles Vikings has a good ring to it. The benefits of having the team and a new stadium outweigh not having them, especially when we would be begging for an expansion team down the road. Time value of money...

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integra_gsr98;294720 wrote:
I say yes.

From what I've read it'll take ~10 years for the money to be paid back to the state just from the taxes/revenue collected by building the stadium and keeping the vikings around. It is a sound investment.

Let alone the fact that Zigi Wylf has bought up ALL of the property around the metrodome site and plans a 1 billion dollar investment into that end of downtown to revitalize and bring people back to the south side of town.

It's a win/win. Plus if the vikings leave I'll never watch football again.

Exactly. It's dumb not to do it.

Either way, it needs to be one with a retractable roof so we can use it as a "multipurpose" facility like the Metrodome. We need to get a Final Four here as well as a Superbowl.

From what I've read it'll take ~10 years for the money to be paid back to the state just from the taxes/revenue collected by building the stadium and keeping the vikings around. It is a sound investment.

Let alone the fact that Zigi Wylf has bought up ALL of the property around the metrodome site and plans a 1 billion dollar investment into that end of downtown to revitalize and bring people back to the south side of town.

It's a win/win. Plus if the vikings leave I'll never watch football again.

i put the vikings ahead of any road that sucks, education for a kid that isnt mine and i'll never meet, and for renovation for some buildings ill never step in.